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title: Ole Miss en Miss Sally, dey tuck on so he didn't git off de fus' yea… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Ole Miss en Miss Sally, dey tuck on so he didn't git off de fus' year, but bimeby news come down dat times wuz gittin' putty hot, en Mars Jeems he got up, he did, en say he gotter go, en go he did. Who acts: en, bimeby news, dat times, Mars. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by 
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 55

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Ole Miss en Miss Sally, dey tuck on so he didn't git off de fus' year, but bimeby news come down dat times wuz gittin' putty hot, en Mars Jeems he got up, he did, en say he gotter go, en go he did.

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**Who acts:** en, bimeby news, dat times, Mars, gittin putty · **What happens:** not git off, come down, wuz, get up, do, say · **To what, where:** dey tuck, gittin putty, en · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (en, bimeby news, dat times, Mars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:46:55
# text = Ole Miss en Miss Sally, dey tuck on so he didn't git off de fus' year, but bimeby news come down dat times wuz gittin' putty hot, en Mars Jeems he got up, he did, en say he gotter go, en go he did.
1	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	tuck	tuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	git	git	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
17	fus	fus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	down	down	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	wuz	wuz	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
29	gittin	gittin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	putty	putty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
35	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
36	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	up	up	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
45	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	gotter	gotter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
51	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	conj	_	_
52	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **git off** | past · do-support | en | dey tuck *not said here* |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come down** | present | bimeby news |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wuz** | present | dat times | gittin putty and en |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get up** | past | Mars | en *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer en=Stimulus |
| 5 | **do** | past | Mars |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | gittin putty and en *not said here* | en |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **go** | infinitive | en | en |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **go** | infinitive | en *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **do** | past | en |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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